NEW DELHI: A government committee is exploring the possibility of imposing a basic customs duty on a few electronic hardware items, which are not part of the obligatory zero customs duty list under World Trade Organisation's information technology pact signed in 1996. Concurrently, the panel, headed by the secretary of department of electronics and information technology (Deity), is also aiming at correcting the inverted duty structure in the electronic hardware...

NEW DELHI: The government is planning to come up with an incentive package in the upcoming Budget to encourage manufacturing of electronic hardware including mobile phones and laptops as part of the 'Make in India' campaign. Some announcements to this affect are likely to be made in the Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 28. Pitching for a package of incentives, the Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has suggested that the...

NEW DELHI: With the increasing consumption of electronic items in the country, the hardware manufacturing industry in India is poised to touch $155 billion by 2015. "As per study made by Frost and Sullivan, the (global) market for electronics hardware is expected to grow by 30 per cent to $320 billion in 2015," Department of Information Technology Secretary Jainder Singh said at the Componex Nepcon exhibition here today. "There is a potential for the...

NEW DELHI: The government is considering a radical proposal to shore up electronic manufacturing capabilities in the country. Several ministries are firming up a plan to mandate that 30% value terms for all government procurement should be 'Made in India' or Indian electronic products. This will extend to tenders of all government ministries, PSUs, government-controlled institutions, PPP-funded projects and projects under institutional funding from the World Bank and...

BANGALORE: While it took Google over a year to build its augmented-reality goggles, Google Glass, Kochi-based Arvind Sanjeev says he was able to replicate it in less than a month for just Rs 4,500, thanks to open-source hardware. Instead of commercializing the product and with the intention of contributing to the community, Sanjeev posted a blog explaining how his 'Smart Cap' can be built by anyone using opensource hardware such as a Rasberry Pi computer, an ...

DUBAI: Middle East has emerged as the top region for India's electronic hardware exports with the sale to the region amounting to $1,738 million in 2013-14, registering a growth of 6.66 per cent. "UAE leads the list of countries importing India's electronics hardware," said Kamal Vachani , regional director for Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) in the Middle East. The electronic goods export to the region...

NEW DELHI: The government is planning to come up with an incentive package in the upcoming Budget to encourage manufacturing of electronic hardware including mobile phones and laptops as part of the 'Make in India' campaign. Some announcements to this affect are likely to be made in the Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 28. Pitching for a package of incentives, the Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) has suggested that the...

BANGALORE: While it took Google over a year to build its augmented-reality goggles, Google Glass, Kochi-based Arvind Sanjeev says he was able to replicate it in less than a month for just Rs 4,500, thanks to open-source hardware. Instead of commercializing the product and with the intention of contributing to the community, Sanjeev posted a blog explaining how his 'Smart Cap' can be built by anyone using opensource hardware such as a Rasberry Pi computer,...

NEW DELHI: India's import of electronic goods like mobiles and cameras rose by almost 30 per cent to Rs 1.57 lakh crore in 2011-12, Parliament was informed today. The country had imported electronic products worth Rs 1.21 lakh crore in 2010-11 fiscal, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. "To promote manufacturing of electronics goods indigenously and reduce dependence...

NEW DELHI: The government is conducting a study to set up IT investment regions which would help attract global investments. The IT investment regions would help the global companies identify suitable locations for their investments, IT and Communications Secretary Jainder Singh told PTI on the sidelines of Elcomp India 2007. However, he refused to give any further details on this. Earlier, while speaking at the event he said an...

NEW DELHI: Latin America could be the next major destination for Indian elec-tronic hardware exports. Riding on a growth of about 220% in IT hardware exports to Latin America in 2005-06, export councils are hardselling this region to companies here. At present, Indian IT exports are largely targeted at the US market. Export councils want Indian companies to expand their market to other regions too. "In Latin America, government contracts form bulk of the orders, which means...

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government would come out with a "proper" electronic hardware policy aimed at attracting manufacturing facilities to Hyderabad, IT Minister K T Rama Rao said here today. Speaking after inaugurating India Gadget Expo 2014 here, he pitched for support of the union government in promoting the hardware manufacturing sector in the state. He noted that the state government has already approved two manufacturing clusters near the ...

NEW DELHI: Facing challenges like inverted duty structure and infrastructure bottlenecks, IT hardware industry has urged the new government to take corrective measures to bring back growth in the sector that has been witnessing flat growth in the last few years. Faced with a double whammy of increasing input costs and growing preference for smartphones and tablets, the sector has seen big players like HCL Infosystems , Wipro and Samtel exiting...

NEW DELHI: India will push for an agreement on information technology and software with China during the third round of strategic and economic dialogue beginning Tuesday in Beijing even as it tries to protect its markets from a flood of Chinese goods. Asia's two largest economies are also expected to hammer out an agreement to develop India's railway infrastructure , which includes improving heavy haul operations, station development and speeding up trains, as...

BANGALORE: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the government's aim was to make Karnataka the innovation hub of the world. Presenting the 2014-15 state Budget in the Assembly, he said: "Government encourages new ideas and innovations for high values for IT products and service companies. The aim is to make Karnataka an Innovation hub of the World. " "In this regard, Government will...

NEW DELHI: A government committee is exploring the possibility of imposing a basic customs duty on a few electronic hardware items, which are not part of the obligatory zero customs duty list under World Trade Organisation's information technology pact signed in 1996. Concurrently, the panel, headed by the secretary of department of electronics and information technology (Deity), is also aiming at correcting the inverted duty structure in the electronic hardware...

The National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) has initiated interaction with government departments to work out strategies for boosting the manufacturing sector. Among the immediate tasks of the council are listing short-term steps for priority sectors and formulation of policy inputs for the forthcoming Budget and the 2005 Exim Policy. We have to ensure growth in manufacturing and generate jobs by throwing up 'out of the box' ideas, NMCC chairman V Krishnamurthy...

NEW DELHI: The government is set to notify on Monday measures aimed at giving a fresh impetus to investments in special economic zones ( SEZs ) and boosting exports, including a cut in the minimum area required for such zones and a new dedicated scheme for electronic hardware and food processing. "The idea is to give incentives to push SEZs out of the big cities and explore the less dense cities," said a commerce department official, who did not wish to be named.